Brown Alumna Janet Yellen First Woman to Serve as Treasury Secretary
January 29, 2021
January 29, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 29 -- Brown University issued the following news:
Brown University alumna Janet Yellen was sworn in Tuesday, Jan. 26, as U.S. treasury secretary, becoming the first woman in the 232-year history of the U.S. Department of the Treasury to hold the position. Yellen was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris and will serve as a direct advisor to President Joseph Biden and his cabinet on economic issues.
She is the first woman to have held ea . . .
Brown University alumna Janet Yellen was sworn in Tuesday, Jan. 26, as U.S. treasury secretary, becoming the first woman in the 232-year history of the U.S. Department of the Treasury to hold the position. Yellen was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris and will serve as a direct advisor to President Joseph Biden and his cabinet on economic issues.
She is the first woman to have held ea . . .